Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to combat a predicted rise of street gangs in the Central Square-Charles River area, Phillips Brooks House will take part in a pioneer social project...
...neighborhood has deteriorated into a slum over the past decade, Walter F. Donlan '56, Phillips Brooks House supervisor of the project, said, and from all indications will soon see an outbreak of juvenile delinquency...
...best a stopgap measure--a piece of undeserved candy with which to coax a precocious Egypt back into the Western fold. Russia has won a diplomatic victory by forcing the U.S., as the saying goes, either to "put up or shut up" over the Egyptian dam project...
This warmth in Washington's attitude toward aid naturally made the Egyptians play "hard to get." They began to listen to Soviet offers, both of arms and, equally importantly, of technical aid with the Aswan dam project. Yet stiff provision in their agreements with the U.S. also confused the Egyptians. As much as anything else it was their confusion over American technical aid intentions which made the Egyptians receptive to Soviet promises...
...four-cornered race to film Leo Tolstoy's classic, War and Peace, is over, and the Italian producers, Ponti-de Laurentis (American associate: Paramount), are left with a clear field; Producer Mike Todd has dropped his project, despite a finished script by Playwright Robert E. Sherwood and months of preparatory work put in by Director Fred (High Noon) Zinnemann. (MGM and Producer David O. Selznick quit the race months ago.) The Ponti-de Laurentis movie version of the great Russian novel is being shot in Italy and Yugoslavia, with Audrey Hepburn starring...